Now there is no doubt anymore. After many leaks and false release dates speculations Adobe will finally announce Lightroom 6 on Tuesday night (US time). Scott Kelby “indirectly” confirmed that the new Adobe LR6 software will be announced on Tuesday (US time). And according to a leak on Fujirumors it will cost 129 Euro.
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All new Sony cameras come with a FREE copy of Capture One 8 Express for Sony. Works like Lightroom but files come out much sharper and cleaner than ACR or Lightroom. highly recommended!!
Lightroom is the industry leader and that’s not likely to change anytime soon, current Photoshop and Lightroom users are not interested in Capture One or any other cheap substitute. And your claims as to “much sharper and cleaner” are rubbish.
@Tom, You realize how important RAW processing is to the final image? Maybe you’ve not shot Sony long – Maybe you don’t remember the initial, terrible RAW processing Adobe supported for the A700. Three month’s later, once they’d refined it, you’d think it was a different camera. And same again for the Panasonic LX3 when that came out. And I suspect it will be the same story for the Panasonic LX100 where Adobe RAW process is resulting in pink colour cast… SO, three out of five of the RAW-capable cameras I’ve owned have looked terrible in Adobe, initially at least.
Don’t know about you, but I’ve found capture one express to be lacking. Maybe i’m just used to lightroom, but for some reason I couldn’t get the same levels of NR correction as well as highlight/shadow push/pull capabilities as I’ve regularly done in lightroom.
wow, a capture one evangelist on a mission to hijack this thread…..
Please not Charlie Brown and the football…. again….
BULL SHXXX
Nothing wrong with Capture One, and the real differences are subtle and vary from camera to camera. But any gross differences in noise and sharpness are just down to different default sharpening and noise reduction. I don’t think there’s any reason to prefer Cap1 over Lightroom for Sony that trumps whatever your workflow preference is…
It’s your money And hooray for Lightroom it’s the industry ‘s standard.
I’ve changed to Capture One 8.2 for Sony Full Version (Full Version is 299$. Full Version for Sony is 29$). I can advice everyone to try the software. For me there is no way back :)!
congrats to you, will you be a more happy chap if anyone else also used the software you are using? seems like it….. you fanboys…
I’m so disappointed by this rumour!
I was so excited to see AR6 I thought it was the latest and greatest Sony Alpha mean machine that was about to be let into the wild.
Then I saw that it was only what I wanted to see and in fact the rumour was about some stupid piece of software that no one cares about……;-)
I do care about this “stupid” software alot. The only issue of LR is performance. I know it is by far the fastest RAW software, but it is still slow. Especially the constant preview rendering lag. In Photoshop the preview rendering is virtually without any lag since version 4 back in tha 90s (in case you have used a well equipped PowerMac). I can’t wait to see the rumored performance increasements in LR 6.
You did see the tongue-in-cheek smiley afterwards, did you not?
I myself am using LR5 and am looking forward to the improvements made. I’ve got 4 cores plus a nice GPU chock full of processing power just begging to be used.
Lightroom’s more than a raw converter though – capture one and dxo can take touch it for image management… Personally, I stick everything through dxo and import the dngs into Lightroom.
“Coming at last…” ?? I take it from the headline that there are millions of raw pictures, sitting on hard drives, unable to be viewed or processed until we have this new ‘Messiah’?!?
Let’s have a little less of the hyperbole and dramatics, please!
Its release was rumored many times before with different release dates and was always pushed back. Thats why he says “…at last.”. No need to call it hyperbole.
I for one, am happy to download the update asap. CC user here. Looking forward to the features.
You know why there are quite a few very capable programs? That’s because every single one of them has its advantages and disadvantages.
“Sharper and cleaner” is not just a little bit of personal perception.
For my personal taste I am using LR and DxO. Both are doing very well. Since R9 of DxO it is the reference in de-noising. On the other hand I find that LR is quicker processing.
I will check out CO as well. Maybe it becomes the third one in my collection. 🙂
doesn’t make sense to me… they normally have a public beta before release
I’m very glad to see this. After trying out Apple’s “Photo” and being very disappointed with it, I decided it time to move from Aperture to Lightroom. As soon as LR-6 comes out, I’m buying into it and moving all my photo files into it.